With a stupid ass price for a 4TB.

Agonist:

With a stupid ass price for a 4TB.

not so, compared to other brand PCIe 4.0 4To SSD, it's 3D TLC nand. kingston is even more expensive by 200 Euro (both in E18 controler). Samsung, and the corsair MP core are 300 Euro lower because they are QLC (i wouldn't get those exept for 8To...) The good point with PS5 is that M2 radiator stay low and a PCIe card can be on top when used in PC or be back on ITX motherboard.

rl66:

not so, compared to other brand PCIe 4.0 4To SSD, it's 3D TLC nand. kingston is even more expensive by 200 Euro (both in E18 controler). Samsung, and the corsair MP core are 300 Euro lower because they are QLC (i wouldn't get those exept for 8To...) The good point with PS5 is that M2 radiator stay low and a PCIe card can be on top when used in PC or be back on ITX motherboard.

You missed my point. Anything over 1TB SSD is grossly overpriced. Sata or NVME. Not even a year ago my 4TB Sata SSD was $429.... Yes they are dropping but we have been developing SSD and using them forc14 years now.

I paid £500 for the MP400 4tb and yea it's Gen3 but it's still super fast and i can't tell the difference between Gen3 and Gen4 even with double the speeds, 3500 vs 7000. I gave my son the Gen4 drive for his PS5 as it's only a 1tb drive. This was a while back now but the MP400 4tb is still the same price. I think it should be a £100 a tb for larger drives.

rl66:

not so, compared to other brand PCIe 4.0 4To SSD, it's 3D TLC nand. kingston is even more expensive by 200 Euro (both in E18 controler). Samsung, and the corsair MP core are 300 Euro lower because they are QLC (i wouldn't get those exept for 8To...) The good point with PS5 is that M2 radiator stay low and a PCIe card can be on top when used in PC or be back on ITX motherboard.

This is basically a MP600 pro XT with a low profile heatsink....scan.co are asking around £850 for the 4tb pro XT so this will be similar price

Agonist:

You missed my point. Anything over 1TB SSD is grossly overpriced. Sata or NVME. Not even a year ago my 4TB Sata SSD was $429.... Yes they are dropping but we have been developing SSD and using them forc14 years now.

I agree on that point i still use HDD at 4To and up, 59,99 Euro for 4To is enough for my data.

Agonist:

You missed my point. Not even a year ago my 4TB Sata SSD was $429....

I think you missed his. As he clearly stated for PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe drives, this is not expensive, then you came around with your sata example. Like i'm not going to pretend to know all the ins and outs of why one may cost more then the other, but just the controller itself would have to be more advanced to deal with the speeds that they want to get for PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe drives, and the liklihood that a 4TB sata SSD has more space and potentially needs more, but less expensive, less dense chips. etc. etc. etc. And i'll reiterate his statement: For what this is, compared to other products in the same class, it's right about normal for the price, 4TB and all. Yes, you can find 4TB PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe drives for less, that also perform less. https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?RandomID=4299250451723320220201190642&N=100011693 601342076 600545605 601303724&Order=1 I am not, however, seeing any that are cheaper that make the same claimed speeds. And obviously, if you do not need those speeds, or do not need a small form factor such as NVMe (when compared to a SATA drive), then by all means get a less performing, cheaper, same storage size, SSD.